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MR. A. W. CLAPHAM in his presidential address to the Society of Antiquaries of London, of which the text is now available in full (Antiq, J., 20, 3, July 1940), raised two points of current interest. He deplored that several archæological excavations had suffered untimely interruption on the cessation of field work on the outbreak of war, and also expressed the alarm which he felt in common with all interested in archæological studies at the way in which military exigencies are endangering or causing the disappearance of earthworks, barrows and other monuments of antiquity. While the Society is exercising such vigilance as is possible in the circumstances, Mr. Clapham feared that little could be done except complete a record, before the threatened relics vanished for ever. The action of the Society in urging upon the Colonial Office that steps be taken for the protection of the antiquities of the Hadramaut, of which Miss G. Caton-Thompson had given an account, has as yet produced no result. Dr. R. E. Mortimer Wheeler, however, has been fortunate enough to be able to complete the work in Brittany begun in 1938, although further investigations had to be abandoned when work ceased abruptly in August 1939.
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Archæology during and after the War. Nature 146, 426 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146426b0
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